First Wrestling meet with Rebel...HELP ME

[rebel61021]

Here is a few pictures of the first meet I have been to with new camera and out of about 265 shots there is only about 30 that are not blurred or to dark or just bad. here are a few of the better ones, Please tell me how to make them better cause as you can see I am still new to this and want to learn real bad so that I can take pictures like the ones I see on this Forum.

[tim]

What's wrong with those? Don't be afraid to use higher ISO settings so you get a faster shutter speed.

[GPR1]

Good efforts. The busy background in the first one is a bit distracting. Wherever possible position yourself to avoid that (I know, rapidly moving wrestlers make that difficult). A little faster shutter speed would freeze the action better, but might still leave fast moving limbs, etc. a little blurry, helping to suggest movement.

Greg

[pcasciola]

When I first saw the title "First Wrestling meet with Rebel...HELP ME", I thought you meant you were wrestling with the rebel's settings. :D

After looking at the EXIF on those shots, I see they were shot at ISO 400. That will contribute to the blur, because you are only getting 1/60th shutter speeds on them. Set it to ISO 1600 and you will get much faster shutter speeds.

[rebel61021]

Thank you for the information, I was shooting in the sport mode and auto mode cause I am still a little srared of the manual settings I am starting to play with them so I may have to post a lot of pictures so that I can learn what all the right settings are for taking great pictures. Thanks again for helping me to become better.